18 10 310 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/2875f3a530b6672716d8f51d3c0a8efb.pdf 1e7d6b2c0eeaa9ddc6567c54849b627b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Miscellaneous Subject The topic of the resource Miscellaneous issues Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1976-1980 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Meeting Notes Subject The topic of the resource 8 pp MS notes including "Reflections on Cardiff" by John Allan Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource North London Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Allan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Undated https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/12acf13d732e62fd233099119b6b2f08.pdf 4d960860888cf5cf55e52b16f071e385 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Professional Issues Description An account of the resource A cohort of NAM members became engaged with the professional registration body, standing as elected councillors on the Architects Registration Council and its various committees. Hitherto entirely dominated by the RIBA bloc, the Council began to yield to a new dynamic through NAM's involvement, enabling fresh perspectives on such issues as mandatory fee scales, greater lay representation on the body, ethically-based standards of professional conduct, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Memorandum to Unattached re forthcoming elections for 1989-90 Subject The topic of the resource Memorandum to Unattached re forthcoming elections for 1989-90 Description An account of the resource Next year the 'unattached' have 13 places on Council and in order to make eure that an election will be held we require at least 11+ nominees. Before the next Council meeting on December 19dd, therefore, I require the follov:ing information from each of the nominees who intend to serve next year: 1 . A letter expressing willingnese to serve if elected a. A statement containing the following in not more than 200 words Date of admission to the register Architectural constituent bodies of which candidate i e a mergber (i.e. 1 unattached' ) Present professional poet and previous experience Committee experience Personal statement 3. Your nomination form ( due to be sent out shortly) with your signature, serial number and date only Your signature on two separate blank sheets of paper Please also note the following: A press ' conference' for the 'unattached' will be held at 11.00am on Wednesday December 1988 at 73 Hall am Street. The 'unattached' pre-meeting will there-fore be held from 10.00am on the same day. Any response you have had from the sample circulated in the summer should be brought along. The prees release will be based on the paper prepared in June by Torn Markus. The reaf30n for the 'unattached' numbere going down this year is related to the timing of RIBA reeigrmtions. See the enclosed correspondence between Bob Adams and Mike Jenks. Please also find enclosed copy letter from F E Paul and copy correspondence re the Profeseional Liability IRevie\iJ Study Team. Alistair Blamire 25 NOV 1988 Alistair Blamire BArch (hons) MArch Alison Blamire DipArch MArch ARIAS Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource A Blamire Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 25.11.88 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/01f2837e9060210eb54c4c311ae69f82.pdf 77188cb8ea6dc7f78ab15d8404fd723d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Professional Issues Description An account of the resource A cohort of NAM members became engaged with the professional registration body, standing as elected councillors on the Architects Registration Council and its various committees. Hitherto entirely dominated by the RIBA bloc, the Council began to yield to a new dynamic through NAM's involvement, enabling fresh perspectives on such issues as mandatory fee scales, greater lay representation on the body, ethically-based standards of professional conduct, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Minutes of ARCUK Council Meeting Subject The topic of the resource Minutes of ARCUK Council Meeting of 15th October 1986 (7 pp.) Description An account of the resource Architects Registration Council of the United Kingdom ESTABLISHED UNDER THE ARCHITECTS (REGISTRATION) ACTS 1931 TO 1938 73 Hallam Street London WI N 6ÉE Tel: 01-580 5861 Registrar: Kenneth J. Forder M.A. 160/86 C O U N C I L 218 Ordinary Meet ing — 15th October 1986 M I N U T E S Minutes The minutes of the 217th Ordinary meeting were confirmed and adopted, subject to small amendments — ( i ) by the substitution of the word "been" for the word "being" in the first line of minute 17 ( i) by the renumbering of paragraph 24 as paragraph 20. A presentation was made to Mr Robert Paine, to mark his long and distinguished service to ARCUK. Matters Arising from the Minutes Mr Bingham referred to minute 19 ( i i) and asked what representation ARCUK had made of the "National Council For Vocational Qualif ications The Chairtaan said that representation had been made to place ARCUK's objections on record, but since it was the intention at present to progress up to the fourth level only there did not seem to be any risk of ARCUK being affected yet. ( i i) Under minute 1 5 ( i i) ( b ) Mr L Forsyth asked about the progress of matters on Continuin bt Professional Development and the Chairman said this would be included in the report of the Finance and General Purposes C01,11i11 ttee . 23. Constitution of Board of Architectural Education The Chairman said that following the decis ion of the Council at its last meeting a formal application was duly submitted to the Privy Council for approval for a change in ARCUK's Regulations. ARCUK has now been told that the Privy Council had promulgated the following arnendment to ARCUK Regulations which had been drawn up by the Privy Council, and were now in force:— prescribed manner' for the purpose of paragraph 2 Schedule 2 to the Act rneans a notice in writing signed by the Chairman,' the Vice Chairman or the Clerk of the Board of Architectural Education, addressed to the Council, and containing particulars of a person nominated for membership of the Board in accordance with the provisions of the said paragraph, and of the School of Architecture the governing body of which has gecommended that person for such membership. prescribed number' for the purpose of paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the Act shall be twenty—f As a consequence the Chairman said that an approach was made to 17 Schools of Architecture, previously unrepresented on the BAE and all except two had forwarded nominat ions. The following was the 1 ist and Council was asked to approve the nominations : — University of Bath Prof Michael Brawne Queens University of Belfast John Hendry Canterbury College of Art David Coupe University of Dundee Dr Angus Roberts University of Edinburgh Prof Isi Metzstein Humberside College of Higher Education Richard Graham Kingston Polytechnic Dennis Berry Liverpool Polytechnic Ken Martin Manchester Polytechnic Raymond Burton North East London Polytechnic Christine Hawley Oxford Polytechnic Christopher Cross Plymouth Polytechnic Prof Adrian Gale Portsmouth Polytechnic Graham Brown Polytechnic of the Southbank Hans Haenlein Thames Polytechnic John Bennetts This list was approved by Council nem con. John Allan then asked about the position of the seven Schools listed under the first paragraph of the Second Schedule to the 1931 Act which were required to elect four representatives on an annual basis. The new arrangement still meant that each year three Schools would be unrepresented. The Chairman agreed that this was the position but said that the anomaly arose from the wording of the Act. Ile said that thought would be given to this litat ter but the ult Ll.late answer would have to be left until such t itne as the Act was alilended and this was not contetaplated at present. 24. Section 7 of the Principal Act Architect Convicted of a Criminal Offence (Members of the press were asked to leave). Malcolm Nickolls said that the name of Evan Wilfred Ebery removed from the Register with effect from the 16 October 1974 and he was disqualified from registration for 10 years following his conviction at Birmingham Crown Court on charges of conspiracy to commit corruption. The end of the 10 year period was the 16 October 1984 and Mr Ebery had now applied for his name to be restored to the Register in terms of the proviso to Section 7 (l ) of the 1931 Act. As Chairman of the Professional .Purposes Committee he advised Council that there was no reason why Mr Ebery's name should not be restored to the Register. He accordingly proposed, seconded by Kenneth Taylor, that the name of Evan Wilfred Eb&y be restored to the Register under his original registration number wiü effect from 15 October 1986. The motion was adopted nem con. (The press was then readmitted and informed of the decision). 25. Reports ( i ) Admiss ion Committee (Annex A — copy inserted in minute book) The report had been tabled and was introduced by Kenneth Taylor. The Council approved the recommendation that the 109 persons listed in paragraph ( i) (a) (b) (c) (d) of document_ 149/86 be admitted to the Register. The Council adopted the recotmnendation that L S Houston, K W Abbam and C G Delancy be not admitte& to the Register because they had not satisfied the Council that they were qualified for registration. (i i) Board of Architectural Education (Awards Panel) (Annex B — copy inserted in minute book) David Gregory presented the report and the Council agreed unanimously to accept the recommendation that the twelve students listed should receive the corresponding avards. The Council noted the first award to be made under the William Kretchtner Bequest of the surn of [1500 to Vaughan Hart, a postgraduate student at Cambridge University. Michael Jeff els asked the Chairman that in future, reports of the names of renewals in the list of applications could be marked with an asterisk. This was agreed. The report as whole was adopted. ( ill) Finance and General Puruposes C0iar,11Ctee (Annex C copy inserted in minute book) Francis Goodall introduced the report. The report was noted with the additional acceptance of the following reconunendation for reinstatement received since the Committee had met — John Allan and Nick Broad had questions about the price of the Register and the number of libraries who receive it. Michael Jenks and John Allan put questions about the Electoral Reform Society Project to carry out a random sample by means of a questionnaire to check on constituent body members based on the number on the Register at 31 October 1986. Michael Jenks asked for a copy of the questionnaire himself to be sent out with the minutes and the Chairman said that this would be done, Mr Forsyth asked about ARCUK CPD Policy and the Chairman said that the CPD in Construction Group had now been informed that in view of the duplication of payments by architects the contribution of ARCUK would be reduced from E 2900 per annum to E 500 per annum with effect from the 1 January 1987 and that accordingly ARCUK was prepared to accept a status as an associate member of the Group instead of a founder member. Michael Metcalfe asked members to recall that very large sums of money had been contributed by ARCUK in the name of Continuing Professional Development in years gone by and it might well be said that ARCUK has done its bit and that now was the time to leave it to others. The GPC of the Board of Architectural Education would review its interest in CPD. This met with general agreement. The report was then approved and adopted. ( i v) Professional Purposes Committee (Annex D — copy inserted in minute book) Malcolm Nickolls presented the report with two minor amendments and the report was adopted. (v ) Registrar's Report (Annex E — copy inserted in minute book) The Registrar presented the report which vas adopted. 26. Architects Directive of the Council of the European Couununity (Previous reference minute 17 of document 104/86) The Chairman reported that the list of accredited United Kingdom qualifications considered at the June meeting were duly passed to the European Community Commission on behalf of the United Kingdom Government in terns of Article 17 of the Directive. A corresponding list had been received from the Irish Government and the lists from ten other Member States were awaited. The General Purposes Committee of the BAE will be discussing the processing of these lists at its coming meeting. In the meant ime the new draft of the Order in Council (version number Ill) had been received and circulated to Council. Ian Urquhart, member of Council and representative of the DOE, was présent with Mike Ankers of DOE as a guest and the time was opportune for conunents to be made on the latest draft. Ian Urquhart said the draft had been sent to all interested parties and after comments had been received by the end of October, the document would be put to Privy Council and then formally to Parliament. The final version would come into effect in mid 1987. David Waterhouse asked members to note that this was the last occasion on which comments could be received. The following points were noted and Ian Urquhart undertook to receive them on behalf of DOE. Page 5 of the Order in Council third line for the word "a I ' substitute the word "another" Page 5 sub—paragraph (b) the reference should be to only three of the Fachhochschule, not all of them. Page 8 paragraph 5 (2) (a) second line for the word "rendered" substitute the word "provided" and on the next line for the word "render" substitute the word "provide" and similar substitution of these words elsewhere. Page 8 sub—paragraph 7 third line the phrase "on request" should be qualified by indicating at whose request. Page 10 in sub—paragraph 7 (b) for the word "renders" substitute the word "provides Two further points of interpretation were clarified by Ian Urquhart. David Waterhouse then referred particularly to the disciplinary procedures outlined on page 7 and 8 saying that he wished to place on record his disagreement with the proposal to give the Council discretion on whether or not to take into account disqual if Ying decisions in other countries relating Co app I i cat 1 ons for achai s s 1 on. lie subtait ted that were two ma 1 n reasons why this should not be ( i) It could be regarded as discriminatory that an applicant from another Member State may have to answer for previous misdeeds before he could be registered, whereas ordinary applicants under Section 6 ( i ) (c) of the Act would not face such a peril; It would seem that any person who wished to apply for registration in these circumstances could take an easier option by applying for registration as a foreign applicant under ARCUK Regulation 27. A member pointed out that even under Regulation 27 the Council had the right to decide whether an applicant was "fit and proper" but David Waterhouse submitted that the criteria were different. He closed by wishing it to be placed on record that he did not agree with the proposition that ARCUK should be able to look at the anticedents of any cand idate. The Chairman said that the majority of Council wished to retain discretion in disciplinary matters. It was not yet known how the other member states intended to deal with disciplinary matters and it was reasonable that ARCUK Council should retain powers by discretion to harmonise with whatever might emerge on a common policy throughout all Member States. If the Council had no discretion, then the UK might be the odd man out and have no power to operate a common policy. Kenneth Bingham closed the discussion by remarking that the disciplinary provisions of Article 4 of the Order in Council clearly meant that ARCUK would have to establish relations with registration bodies of other States. Previously questions had been raised by Nadine Beddington, R Shrimp 1 in, Ian Gordon, Alan Lipman and John Allan. 27. Joint Committee for Architectural Education The Chairman reported on the recent visit in October 1986 by an ARCUK delegation to San Francisco for a meeting of the JCAR which was actually a year overdue (on the basis that it was scheduled to meet on a biennial basis). The next meeting was proposed in mid 1987 in the UK. No immediate changes had been envisaged to the terms of the Inter—recognit ion Agreement between ARCUK and NCARB but in the light of the implications arising from ARCUK's coming administration of the European Directive, a draft alteration to the Inter—recognition Agreement to filter European applicants who might make use of the agreement to register in the United States was considered. Both sides were agreed that the information exchanged during the two day meeting was extremely valuable and the areas covered included the administration of the NCARB examination, American observations on visits to Schools in the United Kingdom, a discussion on the internship system, ARCUK's policy of recognition of overseas Schools and the degree of acceptance of NCARB accreditation for registration purposes In the various Member States. It was noted that NCARB had terminated its inter—recognition agreement with Australia on I September 1986 . John Smith said he regretted that the numbers making use of the Inter—recognition Agreement to become registered in either country was not greater and Professor Bob Macleod said that some years previously he had come away with the impression that the State registration system in the United States had undue bureaucracy. Michael Metcalfe said he thought that the delegation had done an extremely creditable job. The Chairman agreed to keep the Council informed on developments. 28. Date of Next Meeting December 17th 1986 � Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource ARCUK Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 15.10.86 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/3e7137206e406fcc6f0731d4f464fe07.pdf 658d7b3407dcf6947ee8ffa6dad74c33 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Professional Issues Description An account of the resource A cohort of NAM members became engaged with the professional registration body, standing as elected councillors on the Architects Registration Council and its various committees. Hitherto entirely dominated by the RIBA bloc, the Council began to yield to a new dynamic through NAM's involvement, enabling fresh perspectives on such issues as mandatory fee scales, greater lay representation on the body, ethically-based standards of professional conduct, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Minutes of meeting of ARCUK/NAM Unattached Representatives, 28 April, 1978 Description An account of the resource Mints, df WMeck, \ WROM KeJN rm aa Minerees retreerevtabs we si VG tehamdSY,8Pawr4rt. ferment: J. Alan (sa) h. dal (a>), \. Cost (\<) AR Lipman (ar), 8. Mable (em) b. Recbudke (oa) a 4 VWicshtese Bien reyovts ‘ Pay aa Ww é ele yaa sa a Beard t\: MWewcbentIeyee awl isonsiesy arcABecawic Ya -\\. ae VB repre oN be prenentud Ve BRE. \.0%NAMEdmeationarmy.Oe anyUe : move NAM actuitd . 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Thcepreerekandl JW lola mae Wehag ofQuelUy?CineHEIA”Dee ¥\Peland shag Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource KT Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Murray Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1978 Subject The topic of the resource Minutes of meeting of ARCUK/NAM Unattached Representatives, 28 April, 1978 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/87ce43c09683564a0abdadae0de09b06.pdf e255b15186b0277e123913fe77acbfca Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Professional Issues Description An account of the resource A cohort of NAM members became engaged with the professional registration body, standing as elected councillors on the Architects Registration Council and its various committees. Hitherto entirely dominated by the RIBA bloc, the Council began to yield to a new dynamic through NAM's involvement, enabling fresh perspectives on such issues as mandatory fee scales, greater lay representation on the body, ethically-based standards of professional conduct, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Minutes of Special ARCUK Council Meeting to consider changes to the Code Description An account of the resource In Attendance: Mr. K J Forder MINUTES ook) . 29| Apologies: Messrs. Buckle, Campbell, P D B Groves, Melvin and Nicholson. a Special Meeting of the Architects Registration Council of the United Kingdom was held on 21 January, 1981 at 2 p.m. The minutes of the 195 Ordinary meeting were confirmed and signed by the Chairman subject to the addition to the list of those present of Mr. DA Penning. Code of Professional Conduct - Proposals for Change (Appendix E2 - co : : 2 RY inserted (previous ref: Minutes 112-116/80) in Minute Architects Registration Council of the United Kingdom ESTABLISHED UNDER THE ARCHITECTS (REGISTRATION) ACTS 1931 TO 1998 73 Hallam Street London W1N 6EE Tel: 01-580 5861 Registrar: Kenneth J. Forder M.A. 8/81 Pursuant to paragraph 4 of the Council's Regulations Present: Mr. Alan Groves (Chairman) Professor Denys Hinton (Vice Chairman) Messrs. Adams, Allan, Arnold, Barclay, Bartlett, Basil, Miss Beddington, Messrs. Bell, Benroy, Bingham, Brill, Professor Broadbent, Burney, Burns, Critchlow, Darbourne, Professor Dunbar-Nasmith, Messrs. Godfrey-Gilbert, Howe, Hutchinson, Janes, Johnson, Jones, Knight, Kretchmer, Leggatt, Lewis, Macnab, Metcalfe, Nickolls, Owen, Penning, Percival, Messrs. Roebuck, Sargeant, Messrs. DH Smith, J Smith, Messrs. Taylor, Thornley, Wearden, Wightman, Wright, 120. At the invitation of the Chairman, Mr. David Waterhouse the Chairman of the Code Working Group, introduced the circulated document entitled "a Syllabus". The Code Working Group had taken document E.1 attached to the agenda for the meeting of Council on 17 December, 1980, as its operational instruction. The purpose was to produce a ‘new approach' which had been briefly referred to at the previous meeting of Council but it had not been possible at this stage to produce a final version without knowing some of the bases on which it could be formed. The Syllabus was therefore a descriptive proposal for further development - a skeleton on which could be put something which would eventually replace the Code of Professional Conduct. The Group had considered three or four alternative versions and he stressed particularly the last line of the document which indicated that the intention was to move away from any fixed form of permanent guidance to a document which would enable registered persons to see the way in which they should conduct themselves rather than facing a set of prohibitions. Astins, Balls, Beckett, Messrs. Bullivant, Cunningham, Cutmore, Professor Tarn, Walker, Waterhouse, Wykes and Yorke. Mrs. Foulkes, Latham, Meyrick, Murray, Ms. Roberts, Mrs. Silvester, Present: a Special Meeting of the Architects Registration Council of the United Kingdom was held on 21 January, 1981 at 2 p.m. MINUTES Mr. Alan Groves (Chairman) Professor Denys Hinton (Vice Chairman) Messrs. Adams, Allan, Arnold, Astins, Balls, Barclay, Bartlett, Basil, Beckett, Miss Beddington, Messrs. Bell, Benroy, Bingham, Brill, Professor Broadbent, Messrs. Bullivant, Burney, Burns, Critchlow, Cunningham, Cutmore, Darbourne, Professor Dunbar-Nasmith, Mrs. Foulkes, Messrs. Godfrey-Gilbert, Howe, Hutchinson, Janes, Johnson, Jones, Knight, Kretchmer, Latham, Leggatt, Lewis, Macnab, Metcalfe, Meyrick, Murray, Nickolls, Owen, Penning, Percival, Ms. Roberts, Messrs. Roebuck, Sargeant, Mrs. Silvester, Messrs. DH Smith, J Smith, Professor Tarn, Messrs. Taylor, Thornley, Walker, Waterhouse, Wearden, Wightman, Wright, Wykes and Yorke. Messrs. Buckle, Campbell, P D B Groves, Melvin and Nicholson. Mr. K J Forder Apologies: In Attendance: The minutes of the 195 Ordinary meeting were confirmed and signed by the Chairman subject to the addition to the list of those present of Mr. DA Penning. Code of Professional Conduct —- Proposals for Change (Appendix E2 - coRY inserted (previous ref: Minutes 112-116/80) in Minute ook) ~ 19) Architects Registration Council of the United Kingdom ESTABLISHED UNDER THE ARCHITECTS (REGISTRATION) ACTS 1931 TO 19398 73 Hallam Street London W1N 6EE Tel: 01-580 5861 Registrar: Kenneth J. Forder M.A. 8/81 Pursuant to paragraph 4 of the Council's Regulations 120. At the invitation of the Chairman, Mr. David Waterhouse the Chairman oe the Code Working Group, introduced the circulated document entitled "a Syllabus". The Code Working Group had taken document E.1 attached to theagendaforthemeetingofCouncilon17Se 1980,asitsoperational instruction. The purpose was to produce a ‘new approach' which had been briefly referred to at the previous meeting of Council but it had not been possible at this stage to produce a final version without knowing some of the bases on which it could be formed. The Syllabus was therefore a descriptive proposal for further development — a skeleton on which could be put something which would eventually replace the Code of Professional Conduct. The Group had considered three or four alternative versions and he stressed particularly the last line of the document which indicated that the intention was to move away from any fixed form of permanent guidance to a document which would enable registered persons to see the way in which they should conduct themselves rather than facing a set of prohibitions. 8/81/2 IPAIle The Chairman said that progress could be made if Council expressed a : general acceptance of the issues particularly those raised in paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 in that part of the document described as "Principles". He asked Council members at this stage, not to look at particular words but to express general agreement with the concepts. After some discussion this procedure was agreed. 122. The Council then broadened the debate to include consideration of the motions and amendments contained in Annex 1 to Annex J to the agenda for the Council meeting of 17 December, 1980, together with tabled amendments 1 and 2 by Mr. Latham and Mr. Darbourne: Mr. Waterhouse then moved, seconded by Mr. Bingham, that Council formally consider Motions A, B and C together with the listed amendments and the two further tabled amendments on the basis that the Motions were formulated by the Code Working Group in their own language to summarise the intentions contained in the formerly tabled four motions by the Unattached architects' representatives on the Council and to the motions tabled by RIBA representatives. The amendments were designed to reflect differing viewpoints. 123. Mr. Godfrey-Gilbert noted that one of the professions listed in Rule 2.1 was that of estate agents; he recounted that the FAS had brought pressure to bear on surveyors to dissuade them from making use of the description ‘architectural' and this had been successful on the basis that architects forebore from involving themselves in the work of estate agents. If the present proposals were adopted this would mean the collapse of the tacit agreement. 124. Mr. Adams expressed concern that through the "new approach" the second of the two Principles might be incapable of being sustained. He referred to Section 17 of the Architects (Registration) Act 1931, and the vagaries of simultaneous practice occupations. He referred to the difficulty of controlling limited liability companies because of their abstract personality when seen side by side with the unity of the registered person. He foresaw that companies would freely advertise and behave in a variety of other ways with ARCUK powerless of jurisdiction. Mr. D Smith said that he too felt concern that architects would no longer be in control. He warned against moving into an area which the profession would regret. He foresaw that such a course would be paving the way for others to profit from the situation. Professor Broadbent stressed that each proscribed activity should be looked at separately: he could just not see architects as manufacturers and suppliers of materials, with the potential problems of untested materials, however the architect as developer or contractor could lead to improvement. Mr. Darbourne suggested that simultaneous practice was full of pitfalls and said that the burden of declaration and the other conditions were too large to leave to the freedom of the individual. He pointed to the impracticability of a declaration of interests being made in the middle of a two or three year contract, and the possibility that a firm can change its status at any time. There was a danger of the architect being seen as a competitor by the builder. He advocated further thought before any decision was taken. Mr. Bartlett sufported the proposals of the Code Working Group. He referred also to the legal situation of estate agents, to Section 4 of the : Architects Registration Act 1938 and to the Defective Premises Act. 125. Mr. Percival thought that the "new approach" gave more responsibility but it did not absolve architects from being answerable. He felt that the time was overdue when ARCUK should only intervene when disgraceful misuse occurred. Mr. Latham pointed to the poll carried out by the RIBA which would indubitably lead to the end of proscribed activities. He said that ARCUK could not prevent what 70 to 80% of architects wanted. He acknowledged however that there was danger in simultaneous practice through the receipt of two incomes leading to the possibility of suspicion that a lower fee would be charged for architectural services. Mr. Leggatt said that the "new approach" was attractive but he had serious reservations mainly based on the difficulty a practitioner would face without a ready guide. Professor Hinton gave full support for tue new approaca and said by giving responsibility to the individual we will be setting a higher standard of conduct and directing it. 8/81/3 following substituted: 126. Messrs. Owen, Beckett and Kretchmer spoke supporting one or another of the “motions. Mr. Allan suggested that it was wrong not to maintain the present Code fully in being until it was replaced in total. Mr. Benroy spoke on behalf of himself and the IAAS and asked Council members to note the Registrar's memoranda on the original Motions from the Unattached architects and from the RIBA. He supported the action taken to simplify the Code but was opposed to the particular changes suggested. He considered that further thought should be given by Council to the insurance implications of these changes to the Code. 127. Professor Dunbar-Nasmith welcomed the new approach, but expressed the view that ARCUK could arrive back at a Code similar to the existing. He expressed concern over the control a professional body could have over individuals when they were acting on behalf of a limited liability company. 128. Mr. Hutchinson said he welcomed the new approach. Mr. Metcalfe supported the new approach and said it fell into line with the legal advice given to ARCUK in 1934. He said professionalism had its own Code built into the people who practise that profession. 129. There followed some debate on what conditions should operate in the interim situation during the first half of 1981 while the new approach was still being prepared. One viewpoint held was that the existing Code should stay unchanged through the interim period until such time as it would be. replaced in entirety. But finally it was proposed by Professor Tarn, seconded by Mr. Hutchinson, that for the interim period the Code would remain in unchanged form but that the effect of the Motions being considered today would be to suspend any disciplinary action being taken on the relevant sections of the Code. This Motion was adopted by 38 votes with 22 against. 130. Council then turned to the MOtions and relevant amendments. Mr. Darbourne proposed. seconded by Mr. Godfrey-Gilbert that Motion A(ii) be deleted and the "(ii) and subject to the prohibition of the combination at any one time of any such occupation with the independent practice of architecture." the amendment was lost with 7 votes in favour and 44 against. 131. Mr. Knight proposed, seconded by Mr. Percival, to add to Motion A (ii) the words: "so that an architect who combines any such occupation with such practice must make clear to those concerned in what respects the combined service differs from independent professional service." the amendment was adopted by 53 votes in favour and 1 vote against. 132. Professor Hinton proposed, seconded by Mr. Metcalfe, to add to Motion A (ii) the words; "so that an architect may not combine any such occupation with such practice unless one element is subordinate to the other or only occasional." After some discussion the amendment was, with the agreement of Council, withdrawn by the proposers. 133. Mr. Latham proposed, seconded by Mr. Darbourne, that the following be substituted for Motion A(i): 8/81/4 "(i) Subject to prior written declaration to the Client of business interests relevant to the engagement and to further notification should the circumstances of the architect change materially during the commission." Mr. Waterhouse suggested that the amendment merited further consideration and undertook that the Code Working Group would take it on board for examination if it was withdrawn. Mr. Allan suggested that there was merit in the amendment but the declaration to the client alone was much too restrictive. Finally the matter was withdrawn as an amendment but referred by general agreement to the Code Wording Group for examination. 134. Mr. Allan proposed that the following words be added to Motion A(i): "and to provisions for a publicly accessible register of business interests." There was some discussion on the operability of the suggestion and finally the matter was referred by general agreement to the Code Working Group. 135. Finally the original Motion A in the following terms: "That a registered person shall not be arraigned for conduct prima facie disgraceful to him in his capacity as an architect solely by reason of the fact that he carries on any of the occupations listed in Rule 2.1 of the Code of Conduct: (i) subject to provisions for a prior declaration of business interests relevant to his engagement; (ii) and to provisions for the combination of any such occupation with the practice of architecture; as proposed by Mr. Waterhouse and seconded by Mr. Bingham, amended by the addition of the words as follows to (ii): "so that an architect who combines any such occupation with such practice must make clear to those concerned in what respects the combined service differs from independent professional services." was adopted by 51 votes in favour with 6 against. 136. Mr. Waterhouse then proposed, seconded by Mr. Bingham, Motion B: "That a registered person shall not be arraigned for conduct prima facie disgraceful to him in his capacity as an architect solely by reason of the fact that he carries on his practice in the form of a limited liability company." There was no debate on the Motion which was passed by 53 votes in favour with 2 against. 137. Mr. Waterhouse further proposed, seconded by Mr. Bingha, Motion C: "That a registered person shall not be arraigned for conduct prima facie disgraceful to him in his capacity as an architect solely by reason of the fact that he makes his availability or experience known, Without a direct request to do so." 138. It was then proposed by Mr. Percival, seconded by Mr. Hutchinson that the following words be added to the above Motion: "provided that he does not advertise independent consulting services by public means." 140. Mr. Knight proposed, seconded by Mr. Godfrey-Gilbert, that the following words be added to the Motion: "provided that he does not make direct approaches to individuals or organisations. Mr. Roebuck suggested that both these amendments could be noted by Council for further examination by the Code Working Group. 141. Mr. Knight's amendment was then put and lost by 17 votes for with 30 against. 142. Mr. Percival's amendment was put and was adopted by 23 votes in favour with 20 against. , 143. The original Motion € proposed by Mr. Waterhouse, seconded by Mr. Bingham, amended as proposed by Mr. Percival was then adopted by 31 in favour with 9 against. 148. Mr. Latham said that the Council was to be congratulated on an excellent debate with a minimum of sectional campaigning. 149. Date of next meeting: 18 March, 1981 at 2 p.m., followed immediately by the 49 Annual Meeting. 139. Professor Dunbar-Nasmith queried the fact that Couacil was denying any firm of architects who did not wish to practise as a limited liability company the possibility of introducing themselves to prospective clients. There followed some discussion on the activities of limited liability companies. 144. Mr. Roebuck then proposed, seconded by Mr. Knight, that Appendix 1 to the Code of Professional Conduct be deleted and this was adopted by 38 votes in favour with 1 against. 146. Finally the Chairman moved that the Council approves in principle Appendix E2, and instructs the Code Working Group to develop on this basis a new document to replace the existing Code of Professional Conduct. Chairman and was agreed with 2 v oting against. This was seconded by the Vice 147. In reply to a question by Mr. Yorke, the Chairman replied that a document propared jointly by himself and Mr. Waterhouse, incorporating the decisions made, would be made public as quickly as possible. (Copy of press release inserted in Minute Book). 145. Mr. Bingham proposed, seconded by Mr. Waterhouse, that the Council immediately publicise for the guidance of registered persons the effect of its decisions and this was agreed, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource ARCUK Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Murray Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 1981 Subject The topic of the resource Minutes of Special ARCUK Council Meeting to consider changes to the Code https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/f9f629f67c96734a36e5d21396dd6bfb.pdf 1d9983df00e5b55aa273bd06b508e4de Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Professional Issues Description An account of the resource A cohort of NAM members became engaged with the professional registration body, standing as elected councillors on the Architects Registration Council and its various committees. Hitherto entirely dominated by the RIBA bloc, the Council began to yield to a new dynamic through NAM's involvement, enabling fresh perspectives on such issues as mandatory fee scales, greater lay representation on the body, ethically-based standards of professional conduct, etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monopolies Bombshell Subject The topic of the resource Article "Monopolies Bombshell" Description An account of the resource THE day of reckoning for the architectural profession has said the arrived. It is set to receive the biggest shake-up since the wanting to maintain the its place even if practices uent out of system of recommended fee By Vic Tapner and Ted Stevens business and- employees were scales, "provided that fee Laid off, private practices '*ould Surveyors' fee scales also attacked surveyors' monopolies in against the public interest in a number of specified instances, He is accordingly asking the Director General of Fair Trading to discuss with the professional bodies, in the light of the Commission •s recommendatons, action that should be taken and the amendments that might be necessary to their rules. ' • Fraser added that the Director General was being asked' to advise the Secretary of State within six months. in the light of these discussions and with regard to present Circumstances in the construction industry. He abo announced that 'he Director taking action in parallel under his statutory powers on those Commission which were also the subject of agreements registered under the Restrictive Trade Practices (Services) Order 1976. Comment: Pate 2 Full report: Page ISIS etitish Stsauratt•s 'Itttle red book' ts e•.ery as "despensable to the buldtng tndusy•y as Ch.atrmæn MaoB IS to Chinese ft contajrs everything yc•u need to know about buddr.g meme€anes rduding Sts-Aratt range of specta]ised membranes sarkjnq and sheathr•q concrete underlay, subsod protection and separanng •n fbcts roofs Each prouuct comes from a company with a unique reccgd ct 2 BUILDING DESIGN. November 11. 1977 Infill Gascoigne slurrytore ror liquid Shades of Ipswich? Farm building design in all its stunning ugliness Sutherland Lyall reviews the Design Council's latest publication on farm buildings, components and fittings. ALL you research students contentment — "dark colours hunting for industrial make objects appear building sources for smaller. adaptability should Norman Foster's Willis always be kept in mind at the planning Faber Pumas building at a mayor stagc•• cooling and factor ' •wind inis Ipswich can give up for Britain•s temperate climate" there in the catalogue of — the old familiar soup of Gascoigne. Gush & Dent half truths and utter banality (Agricultural) Ltd it surely without vouch the Design is. Council could not properly Admittedly it is not quite so exist as a fully accredited meandering in plan and it's in British institution. dark steel rather than glass Jn line with current neo. and not quite what you might '.ernacular thinking the advice •expect . It's a steel tank is to use drab camouflage slurryslore says the catalogue colcurs. shades Of. it or more accurately the ' •wa:m•• grey. 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For at the partronising cant and a front is to be found a collection of scruffy photos of collection of helpful hints to boring old which he can farmers. Of the sort to make see rot more cheaply in the the nostalgic sigh •mth ads of Farmer's World. Front of the Council catalogue. Ct0dOings Lirnited, 88 Horsetetty Rood. London SWI P 2EE, telephone London 222 2305 inform"ion tick 2 inquiry c•td BUILDING DESIGN. November 11, 1977 if arch'te,-ts• fees wcrc subjest to , the absence 01 a mandatory architects' services has materially and that since 1970 Continued on page 14 ASSET RIGID PRESSED STEEL LINTELS Manufactured hot walvantsed BS 2989,' 2A In compliance With BS 449! 1970 cett'ftcate No 6136 rated for one hour to BS parte '972 Coated before mth a protective Ot ICI•s Twborne Preoared ready for curtain Profiles for all t'öt%lional techniques types Large' quantities to ASSCT nutLOi%G COMPONENTS ASSET HOWS' , NOAO ABC BARGOEO MIO GLAM Fot tick 9 inquiry Wonderful Harcopak! 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We got to the top by saving energy. in.t.nt inform•tion tick IS on rod" inquiry c•rd Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Building Design Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived JA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11.11.1977 https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/43815ac6706fece98f3aba9a34a85e32.pdf 37d46aac6d215c078191880aa7653731 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Liaison Group Including London Group Subject The topic of the resource Liaison Groups: NAM was initially structured as local groups. There was also a Liaison Group whose role was to coordinate the different groups, deal with correspondence and arrange the next annual conference. NAM campaign groups, which were largely autonomous, worked across local groups to develop their ideas. They arranged their own conferences and reported through SLATE and annually to the NAM Congress. The seven different campaign groups listed had members from a variety of local groups. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1976-1979 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource NAM Subject The topic of the resource New Architecture Movement 1 page summary introduction Description An account of the resource Information NEW ARCHITECTURE MOVEMENT This sheet gives basic information about The New Architecture liovement. If you wish to join N.A.M. or obtain copies of further N.A.M. literature please write to The Secretary, NAM Liason Group, 143 Whitfield Street, London, W.1l. ORIGINS N.A.M. was officially founded in November 1975 at the Harrogate National Congress, although several of the constituent members and ideas had been assembled up to two years previously. This Congress achieved a consensus on the essential direction and structure of the movement which was issued as a Press Statement. A Contact List was started, several local groups were established, and a Liason Group was delegated to maintain and extend contacts and to organize the next Congress. AI N.A.M. is working through the collective action of architects and others to alter radically the system of patronage in archi- tecture. We wish to reform the existing power structure in architecture, dominated by corporate or wealthy clients and principals (public or private), with direct relationships between users and designers. The aim is thereby to restore effective control by ordinary people over their environment, and real social responsibility and accountability in the work of architects. Programmes for action are formulated from detailed MEMBERSHIP fembers are drawn from all areas of architectural activity in critiques of the current situation and its background. addition to the lay public. In the former category salaried architects in private practice from the majority, though Local Authority officers, teachers and students are also a substantial element. The contact list is growing rapidly. STRUCTURE The Movement's structure, which was established at Harrogate, is a network not a pyramid. It thus consists mainly of locally based groups of up to about a dozen members, who are kept in touch by a small Liason Group. There is no hierarchy, each group pursuing its defined tasks in furtherance of the overall aim. The object is to avoid bureaucracy or celebrities and the Liason Group's role is therefore basically administrative : circulating documents from other groups, making new contacts and arranging the National Congress, when Liason Group members may be redelegated. Local Groups are now working in various parts of the country, and if you wish to become involved the Liason Group will introduce you to the FINANCE PREMISES LITERATURE to act as postman for the group. in the HNovement. up to date by The Liason Group. 5 nearest group or alternatively help you to establish a new group. No enrolment fee as such is asked for, membership being based on agreement with and involvement in pursuing the Movement's aim. Individual groups are for the most Contributions are however payable at conferences, and for specific items such as some of the larger reports etc. These funds are caged in the N.A.M. account, for which three Liason Group members are signatories. Application for grants is currently in hand. The Liason Group operates from 143, Whitfield Street, London, W.1., to which all initial enquiries should be addressed. The local groups make their own arrangements, the normal practice being to meet at the residence of each of the members in turn, the host member acting as chairperson for their meeting. One member agrees part self-financing. REPRESENTATION The Movement's overall aims are refined and endorsed at national Other N.A.M. documents recently produced, all of which are available on request, include: "NAM — Historical Perspective", NAM — Brochure, "A National Design Service", "Ihe Case Against Mandatory Minimum Fees" — the report of NAM to the Monopolies Commission (elds "a Short History of the Architectural Profession" (10p). A complete list of all NAM documents, press cuttings etc. is kept and local conferences, which have received fair coverage in the architectural and technical press. 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Title A name given to the resource Miscellaneous Subject The topic of the resource Miscellaneous issues Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1976-1980 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource NAM Subject The topic of the resource 4 page historical intro to NAM Description An account of the resource INL99dSH3d “TWOIYOLSIH < a HISTORICAL PERSPEC?IVE Hawser Trunnion the selected history of modern architecture from which NAN draws its conclusions for action can be told as a ghost story. That is to say, it is the tale of how a once lively modernism lost its social radicalism, became comfortable then senile, and finally died — but only to transform itself into a ghost which continues to haunt us the more effectively for this deceptive transformation. Like most good stories, there are several versions with significant differences that shed more light on the narrators than on the story itself. The most recent official version was told by ‘he Architectural Review, that ageing glossy now totally debauched by its own rhetoric, in its Preview Issue of January 1976. The punch-line came first : "that Modern Architecture as one has been experiencing it has gone into hiding. Gone (well, nearly gone) are those massive rectilinear packages; the towers, the slabs and (since Burolandschaft) the too big urban footstools. Gone (or nearly gone) are those self-assertive, diagramatic buildings which made a point of having nothing to do with the neighbours. Gone is the Will to assert, the will to shock." That the wills to assert or shock have gone is debatable. That the buildings referred to have "gone" should presumably be taken to mean the new commissions for such buildings, not the buildings themselves. But the most disagreeable aspect of the article is the mixture of wise complac— ency and indulgent penitence. Unfortunately we find our version of the story rather more worrying. It has indeed taken almost exactly twenty-five years for the impetus behind the first Modern Movement in this country to be exhausted. The Festival of Britain and European Architectural Heritage Year, 1951 to 1975, might be taken as the official milestones at the inauguration and closure of the period respectively. We appear to stand now at the beginning of a new phase in which the criteria of 'relevant' action will be determined as much by the understanding of this legacy as by our particular political standpoint. he effects of the process of radicalization induced by war could be seen in "The past is not for living in; it is a well of conclusions from which we draw in order to act. " (John Berger) ae 1945 in the arrival of the first modern Socialist Government, with its far-reaching social reforms on the domestic scale, and in our modified nation status in INAVO and the realization that we were no longer an imperial power. In matters of environment the New Towns Movement, the Town & Country Planning Act 1947 etc were the first expression of a new vision and confidence that had already permeated other sectors of society, including for example the health services. One recalls the bright-eyed article by the Smithsons in which they referred to themselves as "The 1947 Generation" denouncing the bygone equipment of the pre-modern architect, the screw pen, the classical grammar, in favour of their own new weapons, the development plan and the C.P.0. The South Bank Exhibition and the associated housing schemes for Lansbury, East London epitomised the mixture of exhuberance and ‘committed concern' while showing that modern architecture was not simply a flat roof or a commer window but a comprehensive urban language. The underlaying ideas, had of course been worked out long before, in Germany, France, Holland, Sweden and most completely in Russia. In this country, typically slow on the uptake,it was codified visually in the 1938 Exhibition of MARS group, which itself derived its premises from the parent CIAM movement in Europe. The spirit in which modem architecture was first embraced by a radical few in this country is best captured by Max Fry's own description of himself, as a young man of 30. architecture decisively. Then the second thing was added to me when I fell in love with a house by Miss van der Rohe, his Turgendhat Haus, in the Taunus Mountains. I fell in love with this building, which is to say that I gave my heart to it and it entered into my emotional recesses and filled them to overflowing. "When I first came in contact with new architecture in Germany I was struck by two things; the first, this version of a grandly proportioned urbanism taking in everything: dwellings, roads, factories, markets, down to the small paraphernalia at the closest personal context. Here is an architecture, I said to myself, capable of everything. Here is a true resolution, the end of discord. This is it, I wasayept with a fervour that was the reflection of a release of creative energy which was to spread from Europe to every part of the world and change the character of For me at that time it was as though, my mind cleared, rinsed and invigorated by the noble rationality of the Bauhaus, the breadth and grandeur of the proposition that it and the Modem Movement represented to me, suddenly my heart was taken, by one work, not essentially different, but of a quality of which I had not imagined the movement as yet capable.” traveller put the vision more bluntly. The sincerity is exemplary; the combination of rationality and passion the best modern architecture can offer but it now seems incomplete. Wells Coates, Fry's contemporary and fellow "As creative architects, we are concerned with a future which must be planned, rather than a past which mst be patched up". from the thirties But the climate of 1945 was different{both in degree and in kind. The post-war era for the first time saw the alliance of the ‘new wisdom' hitherto the preoccupation of dissaffected intellectuals and enlightened bourgeous patrons, with all the executive force of government and the major institutions. At the very moment that the pioneers' thesis appeared to be vindicated, so the process of institu%tionalizing its assumptions began in its adoption by a new establishment due to become infinitely more sophisticated and bureaucratic than any hitherto. Naturally it was intelligent enough to absorb the precepts and personalities that would otherwise have been dynamite, and throughout the 50's the professions of architecture and planning were happy to be included in the monolithic drive for reconstruction. (For 20 years it has been considered an unjustified luxury to conceive of L.A. housing as anything but a numbers problen.) The antithesis,which was bound to arise in conflict with this centralist orthodoxy, appeared early in the 1960's in phenomena ranging from the satire movement, to student protest; that is at about the time when on the threefold premise of cheap energy, expansionist economics and enlightened paternalism, "progressive! architects and planners (now comfortably established in government institutions and well-connected practices) were ready for the big boom. The extent of development, publicly or privately sponsored during the 1960's is unlikely to be equalled during the lifetime of any reader over 20,and the housing, new towns, universities, transport infrastructure etc. -- —6f this period will somehow or other have to do for the majority of us and our children till the latter are middle-aged. The future which Wells Coates generally wanted to plan is now the past that we will have to patch up. But for the architectural profession, the boundaries of their sphere of action were still essentially the same. Even Leslie Martin, one of the most advanced thinkers of the movement, took stock of the situation in the mid 60's like this:- Referring to the 20's, 30's he wrote in 1966 "However complicated the historical situation may have been, three powerful lines of thought appeared. The first came from the passionately held belief that there had to be some complete and systematic re-examination of human needs and that as a result of this, not only the form of buildings, but the total environment would be changed. The second line of thought interlocking with this was simply that change in the form of buildings or environment would only be achieved completely through the full use of modern technology. These 2 ideas produced a third, which wasthat each architectural problem should be constantly re-assessed and thought out afresh". Martin went on to diagnose the failure of modern architecture in the neglect by architects to attend to the 3rd item. But he himself was neglecting another factor infinitely more important, because while concentrating on changes in form and technique he quite ignored the question of changes in patronage - the underlaying governing function which determines the very boundaries of change of the other two. It's the same blind spot as Fry and Coates, but after 30 years of social change - how much less forgiveable! Max Beerbohm had called the 20th Century the "century of the common man", but in architecture and planning, after now more than 50years of modernism, he is still assumed to be less qualified than remote architects and planners to know whats best for hin. Meanwhile arteries were hardening. In 1970 the D.O.E. -a concept that would have seemed revolutionary 25 years earlier - established itself in the now familiar faulty towers, sited tastefully separate from Whitehall, and expressing so precisely its bland combination of technocracy and officialdom, to preside over a process that was already in decline. What could follow now? Obvious with hindsight: a simple coronary case with complications. We ran out of fuel —- petro-chemical, financial and most important social. For by now the assumed popular consent on which all this development had been based was solidly organised into community groups, environmentarists, conservation lobbies, spaceship earth economists,etc of increasing expertise. It began to seem once more that the people with the power were less intelligent than the people without it. The complications? Almost as fast as the development boom fever was dying in the establishment the antibodies were being absorbed. Participation, piecemeal planning, rehab and recyling have been hastily substituted in the official policies of national and local authorities and the professional institutions such that the concepts of 'Commmity Architecture’ and ‘Neighbourhood Participation’ are already barnacled with bogus concern and trendy humbug, without mich noticeable advantage to the intended beneficiaries. The courtesy with which Nicholas Harbraken was received at a County Hall lecture, when his whole theme was disposing of the very basis on which the Department operated, was quite astonishing. Thus the wise Authority rejects not with brick wall but with cotton wool. Sociologists call it "Rejection by partial incorporation", and the British Establishment is uniquely gifted at it. Not only is there nothing you can complain about - there's plenty you must be grateful for. Yhus the ;host was born The current climate is pluralistic and diverse to the extent that, given the right form of words, everyone can apparently claim to be progressive - the D.0.E, R.I.B.A, most L.A.'s, the R.T.P.I. etc etc - concealing the fact that major ideological change is occurring with little or no commensurate redistribution of power. Environmental matters continue to be determined on the basis of power, not of need, and the status quo is effectively maintained. It is this situation that N.A.M. was formed to study and to penetrate. So much for what amounts to our context in the outside world. Meanwhile, what of our context in the profession? In the same period under review the profession has transformed itself from a craft-orientated elite of aesthetic gourmets supported by forelock -— tugging draughtsmen, predomminatly private, into an amy of professionals dependent on a very different calibre of recruit - a university educated, mainly middle-class mass of aspiring principals whose habit of identifying with employers has blurred their vision of the political reality both within their offices and within the RIBA as a whole. Salaried architects -— the vast majority of the profession - who may be hopeful of more direct and satisfying relatiaships with the users of their products, in view of the changing climate, have little to be optimistic about. Their governing body, the R.I.B.A. in no way representative of their concerns, continues to be dominated by the assumptions of private principals and no other organisation save ARC and ourselves shows any sign of challenging it. Such a state of affairs, when 80% of a profession is misrepresentated by default (or not at all) would be at best unsatisfactory, except that the current economic depression has begun to show that more immediate aspects of employment may be none too cosy either. Government cuts and the Middle East Klondike can only temporarily disguise the fact that large sections of society who can avail themselves easily of the services of doctors and lawyers have no access to architects except through surrogate clients whose patronage they can in no way initiate. It is out of this ghostly atmosphere of reality and appearances, wisdom and duplicity that N.A.M. developed and it is mainly from this section of the profession that its current membership is drawn. At the deliberately unlikely venue of Harrogate, rather less than a hundred people met for a weekend in November 1975 at the invitation of the small group named ARC (Architect's Revolutionary Council) which had already for a couple of years been preoccupied with such questions. The outcome was the nucleus of a New Architecture Movement which has since distinguished its own identity from that of ARC and at the same time consolidated its membership and its aims. Of the latter more will be said later, but beforehand the two essential characteristics of the movement that Harrogate established require explanation. First its attitude: it was felt that this mst be positive and constructive, no matter whether this involved more work. Nevertheless we must beware of getting bogged down in research. We would guess that it's all on the shelves of College libraries already. What we need are the people who wrote it. The second feature is our structure. If there is a single obvious lesson in the past period it is that the more general the precept the more diverse mist be its application. The structure is therefore federal, national. Our object is to seek strength in numbers such that any individuals or groupings that share the basic aims contribute to the consensus for action. Apart from rudimentary liason processes, therefore the resulting character of the movement is its diversity and its localised basis. A centralised power elite dictating policy seemed both alien and unworkable. The N.A.M. is a microcosm of the social structure it foresees revolutionizing architectural patronage. establish a group of your own. lies in the actions of many. and are putting a more sociable face on them". ie Individuals and local groups spread throughout the country make up the Movement —- all of equal status in so far as they can develop their own programmes in support of the generally agreed aims - any material produced therefore is signed for example "N.A.M., Edinburgh Group", or "N.A.M. North London Group". The essential function of making a sustaining contacts, together with arranging national congresses is carried out by a small Liason Group - which at present happens to be situated in London. This function could of course be transferred to any group who wished to take over it. If you wish to join, the contact list will probably already contain the names of individuals or groups in the area and you can join their meetings or alternatively Ideally a network of groups will develop, covering the entire country, with overseas contacts also, each one working on @ number of topics, local campaigns etc which it would present at national congress for review. The Congress would also of course be the place for overall aims and strategy to be reviewed. The key to this decentralised structure is that of local antonomy. If a particular topic or local issue is your interest then you pursue it. We are not a movement with presidents or celebrities and its strength lies not in the words of a few. Its strength and tweedledee of form and technique - competence and the Anyway we started telling a ghost story, and want now to tell how it ends. Well,for the A.R. it ends about here, because Modern Architecture they tell us has gone into hiding. Actually they were more honest than they intended when they added: "This disappearance is not caused by any great change in the accommodation asked for: clients are still calling for immodest cubes of space and be given this city bursting character. But, by and large architects are displaying them differently Well what a surprise. Plus ca change. Still the old tweedledum lies in the actions of many. and are putting a more sociable face on them". fs Individuals and local groups spread throughout the country make up the Movement - all of equal status in so far as they. can develop their own programmes in support of the generally agreed aims - any material produced therefore is signed for example "N.A.M., Edinburgh Group", or "N.A.M. North London Group". The essential function of making 2 sustaining contacts, together with arranging national congresses is carried out by a small Liason Group - which at present happens to be situated in London. This function could of course be transferred to any group who wished to take over it. If you wish to join, the contact list will probably already contain the names of individuals or groups in the area and you can join their meetings or alternatively establish a group of your own. Ideally a network of groups will develop, covering the entire country, with overseas contacts also, each one working on a number of topics, local campaigns etc which it would present at national congress for review. The Congress would also of course be the place for overall aims and strategy to be reviewed. and tweedledee of form and technique - competence and the The key to this decentralised structure is that of local antonomy. If a particular topic or local issue is your interest then you pursue it. We are not a movement with presidents or celebrities and its strength lies not in the words of a few. Its strength Anyway we started telling a ghost story, and want now to tell how it ends. Well, for the A.R. it ends about here, because Modern Architecture they tell us has gone into hiding. Actually they were more honest than they intended when they added: "This disappearance is not caused by any great change in the accommodation asked for: clients are still calling for immodest cubes of space and be given this city bursting character. But, by and large architects are displaying them differently Well what a surprise. Plus ca change. Still the old tweedledum the whole chain. in the course of our work. design guide. We leave you to guess whether this preservation of the status quo is because the RIBA is too preoccupied with bread and butter issues, or because it knows all too well which The - questionis now not whether the politics of the profession matters or not, but whether anything else does. A profession which once came near the brink of radical change - donned a mask instead and now its face has grown to fit it. side its bread is buttered on. But behind the new sociable face practising its "social art" the architect with integrity (a word mach in the news on which we had something to say to Monopolies Commission) knows quite well that his formal windmill-tilting and technical guesswork hardly touch the real forces and desires of the people or groups that literally form the life blood of the environment. The radical question is not "what forms? or "which techniques" but "who are my patrons? for it is this link which draws up Without seeking to answer it, modern architecture can well stay in hiding, while its ghost roams far and wide; all the more sinister for its new disguise. It visits most of us daily Now NAM must measure its strength; dispose of this ghost of modern architecture, and build a social reality in its place. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource NAM Subject The topic of the resource Historical resume of context for NAM's origins (9 pp typescript) Description An account of the resource 1. BACKGROUR D ° i” Aus? ARCRITACTURS FOVaN a It has taken almost exactly twenty-five years for the impetus behind the first iodern jovement in this country to be exhausted. oe. festival of Britain 1951 and ia | taken as the official milestones at the inauguration and ‘closure ef the period respectively. | | ‘e seem to stand new at she beginning cf a new ‘phase in which ‘the criteria of 'relevant' action will be determined. asmuchbytheunderstandingofeurlegacyasourone political standpoint. The effects of the process xf radicalization induced by war cxuld be seen in the arrival of the first modern Socialist Gsvernment with bia: Gea nbagin ters social referms on the dnmestic scale, and in cur modified nation status in ‘ate and the realization that we were n> longer an imperial power. | | ke In matters oa envirennent the New Toms Hevenent, the Town & a Planning Act 1947 ete. were the first expression of a new vision and csenfidence that had already permeated other sectcrs of svciety, including for example the health services. The South Bank Uxhibitien and the Associated Housing schemes in Lansbury, Mast London epitomised the slicetae of exuberance and ‘committed concerm' while sheving het sigdee, atoll estan was ss x not simply a flat roof ora corner window, but a comprehensive urban language. The underlying ideas, had of course been werked out long befere : it was *cedified visually in the 1939 Exhibition %::2a of the Mars Group, which itself derived its premises ~ from the parent CIAM movement in Europe. But theclimate of 1945 was different both in.degree and in kind. .The post-war an... for the first time saw the alliance of the ‘new wisdom', hithertu preoccupatiun of dissatisfied intellectuals and enlightened bourgeois patrons, withall the executive farce. of government and the major ieeiatlehe At the very iahient that the pioneer's thesis appeartsedbe vindicated, a the process ef institutionalizirg its assumptions began in its adeptien by a new establishment due ta become infinitely more sophisticated and bureaucratic than any hitherte. Naturally it was intelligent enough to absorb | the prece is and, perssnalities that would otherwise have been dynamite, and throughout the '50's the professianosf architecture and planning were happy to be included in the monolithic drive for reconstruction. : he anti-thesis which was bound to crise in conflict with : this centralist orthodoxy sppeared early in the 1960's in phenomens, ranging -from the satire movenent, to student protest, ‘y that is at about the time when enthe threefold premise of cheap energy, expansionist ecenomics and enlightened paternalism, | "progressive"architects and planners (now comfortably established in government: institutioR® and well-connected practices) were ready for the big boom. The extent of development, publicly or privatelys sponsored during thel960's, is unlikely td we equalled during the lifetime ef anyone reaching this - and the nGgeibe: new towns, universities, tansport infrastructure dai, ot this period will somehow have to do for the majcrity of us and our children till the latter are middle-aged. e But atteries were hardening . In 1970 the DOE - a concept that would have seemed revolutionary 25 years earlier - established itself in the now familiar faulty towers, sited carefully separate from Wai tehall , and expressing so precisely its blant combination of - technogracyand officialdom, to provide over a process that was already _in decline. . . | ‘What would happen now? Obvious with hindsight : c simple coronary case with onmplications. We ran out of fuel - petro- chemical, financial, and most important social. For by new the assumed popular consent on which all. this developmentha.d been based was solidly organised into community groups, environmentalists, conservation lobbies, spaceship earth economists, tec of. increasing : expertise. It began to seem once more tat the people with the i power were less intelligent than the people without it. The complications? Almost as fast as the devel~pment boom fever was dying in-the establishment the antinodies were being absorbed. Particpation, piecemeal planning,rehab and recycling have been hastily substituted in the official policies of national and local authorities and the professional institutilns such that concepts of ‘community Architecture’ and Neighbourhood Participation! are already bandied with bogus concern and trendy ‘humbug, without much noticeabte advantage to the intended beneficiaries. The cur rent climate is pluralistic and diverse to the extent that, given the rifgt form of words, everyone can apparently | claim to be progressive - the 193, RIBA, most L.A.'s, the RTPIetc, etc - concealing the fact that major idealogical change is occurring with little or no commensurate redistribtuiion of power. Environmental matters continue to be detemminedon the basis >f power, not of need, and the status quo is effectieety maintained. It is this situation that NAM was formed to study and pehetrate. So much for what mounts to the context in the -utside world. Meanwhile, what eftia’ contest in the profession? In the same perind the profession has transformed iteself from a craft-orientated elite of aesthetic gastronomes supported by forelock tugging- draughtsmen, into and army of professionals dpeendant on a very. different calibre of re cruit, a university educated, m:inly middle class mass of aspiring principals whose habit of .identifying with employers has blurred their vision of the pelitical reality within their offices and throughout the RIBA., ~~ (Contecsseces Salafied architects, more direct and satisfying relationships with the users of their products, have little to be optimistic about because of the economic crisis, The professions governing body, RIBA, is dominated by the interests of private practice and salaried architects have to realise that the NAM is the only effective voice challenging the Private Practice Principal's Party, 66 Portland Place. Such a state of affairs, the majority of the profession, who may hope for profession is misrepresented by default (or not'at at the best of times, between principals use of architects only existed by surrogate clients and a remote. beaurocratic offices. , , now that the crisis and assitants, established and still at college The Middle Hast Klondike can only briefly disguise daily more apparent. the fact that wheras. the publiss access to lawyers and doctours was relatively easy, until the goverment cuts reduce this too,. the. publics when 80% of. a all) would be absurd bites. home the contrdictions Ae grow ‘It is out of this uneasy climate of reality and alussion, wisdom and displicity that N.A.M. developed. At the unlikely venue of Harrogate a gathering of under a hundred people meet for a weekend in November. 75, at the invitation of a small group called ARC.. ARC had been preoccupied with such questions for a couple of years, . The outcome was the nucleus of a New Architecture Movement which has since distinguished its own identity from that of. ARC and at the ‘same time consolidated its aims and membership. More on aims later.. The two essentail characteristics of the Movement that Harrogate established ares- a. It must have a constructive attitude founded on strong annalysis. Yet another vocal articulation scemed unnecessary and abortive. b. That its structure should be both federal and national, allowing the individual personal involvement and avenues of action. Apart from a rudimentary’ Liason process the character of the movement is its diversity and localised basis. A centralised. power elite was seen as alien and unconstructive. : Individuals and local groups spread’ throughout the country make up the movement, ‘all aré of an equal status and are free to develop their own programmeisn support of the generally agreed aims. Any material produced is signed, Bdinburgh NAM Group, or NAM Cardif Group. The purpose of the small, at present London based, Liason Group is to maintain and develop contacts and to set up the next National Congress. If you are thinking of joiningw.e hope that our contact list has a member close by you, if not then we would be delighted if you initiated your own NAM Group. Speakers and information can be sent to youe In time a network of groups should develop to cover the country, each one working out its own ideas wcther localised or more universal. The Congress will be one way of communicating between groups and for working out overall aims and strategies, The key to this decentralised structure is that of individual comnitmant and local autonomy. ‘We are not a movement with presidents or celebrities, its strength lies-in the involvement of you, and «the help we can all give ‘each other. , . NEW ARCHITECTURE MOVEMENT 1. BACKGROUND 9 Ithastakenalmostexactlyined yearsforthe impetus behind the first iodern Fovenent in this country to be exhausted, The festival of Britain 1952 and HAHY 1975 might hhe_ taken as theofficial nilestones at “ee inaireeepbolm ana closure. ef the period respectively. Weseemfostandnewsithepees ofanewphase_ in which the criteria of ‘relevant' action will be determined as much by the. understanding of aim legacy as our-current political standpoint. | | The —— of the pesedas of radicalization induced by war could be seen in the arrival of the first modern Socialist ote tent ait its far-reaching social reforms on the dninestic: scale, and sn cur modified nation status in ate and the realization that we were n> longer an ‘imperial power. be InmatterscfaeecontheNewTownsMovement, the Town & Country Planning Act 1947 etc., were ‘the first expressioonf a new cision and esnfidence that had already permeated other sectcrs of i including for example the health services.. The South Bank fixchibition and the Associated Housing schemes in Langbury, ast London epitomised: the meine of exuberance and ‘committed concern! medie- Showin that modern architecture was notsimplyaflatroofaksewindow,butacomprehensive— urbanlanguage.The neideas,hadofcoursebeened out long befare : it was “cadified visually im the 1938 Exhibition of the Mars Group, which ‘itself derived its, premises ftom the osuede CIAM movement in Barope. was different both in degree and in kind. But theclimate of 1945 The post-war era. fdr the first time "new wisdom', hithertu preoccupation andenlightenedbourgeoispatrons,withallee of government and the major institutions. At the very msment that the pioneer's thesis appeared t» be vindicated, so the process ef institutionalizing its assumptions began in its adoptiobny a new establishment due-ta become iyPind pels more sophisticated and bUreaucratic than any hitherte. flaturally it was intelligent: enough to eavserb . the prece s and personalities that would otherwise have heen dynamite, and. tipoustont fai '50's the professions of architecture and Se aneae were happy to be included in the monolithic drive for reconstruction. The anti-thesis which was bound to crise in conflict with. this centralist orthodoxy appearcd eaxly in the 1960's; in phenomens, ranging from the satire movement, to student protest, that is at about the time when enthe threefold premise of cheap energy, expansionist economics and enlightened paternalisn, "progressive"architects and planners (now comfortably established in government institutioK§ and well-connected practices) were ready for the big boom. The extent of development, publicly or privatelys sponscred during thel960's, is unlikely tv be equalled during the lifetime of anyone reaching this - and the housing, new towns, universities, tansport infrastructure ete., of this period will somehow have to do for the majcrity of us and our children till the latter are middle-aged. saw the alliance of the of dissatisfied intellectuals Salatied architects; the majority of the professionw,ho may hope for more direct and satisfying relationships with the users of their products, have little to be optimistic about because of the economic crisis, The professions governing body, RIBA, is dominated by the interests of private practice-and salaried architects have to realise that the NAM is the only effective voice ’challenging the Private Practice Principal's Party, 66 Portland Place. Such a state of affairs, when.80% of a profession is misrepresented by default (or not at all)- would be absurd at the best of times, now that the crisis bites home the contrdictions- between principals and assitants, established and still at college grow daily more apparent.. The Middle Hast Klondike can only briefly disguise the fact that wheras the publies access to lawyers and doctours was relatively easy, until the goverment cuts reduce this too, the publics use of architects only existed by surrogate clients and a remote beaurocratic offices. , A It is out of this uneasy climate of reality and alussion, wisdom and displicity that N.A.M. developed. At the unlikely venue of Harrogate a gathering of under a hundred people meet for a weekend in November, 155 at the invitatioonf a small group called ARC. ARC had been preoccupied with such questions for a couple of years, The outcome was the nucleus of a New Architecture Movement which has Since distinguished its own identity from that of ARC and at the same time consolidated its aims and membership. More on aims later. ‘The two essentail characteristics of the Movement that Harrogate established are3- a. .It must have a constructive attitude founded on strong annelysis. Yet another vocal articulation scemed unnecessary and abortive, b, That its structure should be both federal and national, allowing the individual personal involvement and avenues of action, Apart from a rudimentary liason process the character of the movement is its diversity and localised’ basis,. A centralised power elite was seen as alien and unconstructive. se Individuals and local groups spread throughout the country make up the movement, all are of an equal status and are free +6 develop their own programmes’in support of the generally agreed aims. Any material produced is signed, Edinburgh NAM Group, or NAM Cardif Group. The purpose of the small,’ at present London based, Liason Group is to maintain and’ develop contacts and to set up the next National Congress, If you are thinking of joining we hope that our contact list hag a member close by you, “if not’ then we would be delighted if you initiated your ‘own: NAM Group. Speakers and informaticoann be sent to yous In time a network of groups should develop to cover the country, -each one working out its own ideas wether localised or more universal. The Congress will be one way of communicating between groups and for working out overall aims and strategies, The key to this decentralised structure igs that of individual commitmant and local autonomy. We are not a movement with presidents or celebrities, its strength lies in the involvement of you, and the help we can all five each other, But atteries were hardening . In 1970 the DOE - a concept that would have seemed revolutionary 25 years earlier - established itself in the now familiar faulty towers, sited carefully separate from Yaitehall , and expressing so precisely its blan® combination of techroeracyand officialdom, to provide over a process that was already in decline. What would happen now? Obvious with hindsight :-c simple. coronary case with complicationsW.e ran out of Padl-Spesies chemical, financial, and most important social, ‘For by new the assumed popular consent on which all this development had been based was solidly organised into community groups, environmentalists, conservation lobbies, spaceship earth economists , the of increasing expertise. It began to seem once more that the people with the power were ‘less intelligent than the people without it. ‘Tne complications? Almost as fast as the develapment boom fever was dying in the establishment the antihodies were being . absorbed, Particpation, piecemeal planning,rehab and recycling have been hastily substituted in the official policies of national and local authorities -and the professional institutilns such that concepts of 'odthimind ty Architecture! and Neighbourhood Participation! are almeaee bandied with bogus concern an? trendy humbug, without much noticeabje advantage to the intended beneficiaries. . The cur rent climate is pluralistic and diverse to the extent that, given the riGet form of words, everyone. can apparently claim to be progressive - the DOE, RIBA, most L.A.'s, the RTPlLetc, ete —- concealing the fact that major idealogical change is occurring with little or no commensurate redistribtuiion of power. ea matters ccntinue to be détexminedon the basis -f power, not. of need, and the status quo is effectieéLy maintained. It is this© situation that NAM was formed to study and pehetrate. So much for what amounts to the context in the ~utside world. Meanwhile, what ofour ccntext in the profession? In the same — | pericd the professicn has transformed iteself from a sine esomicatated elite of aesthetic gastronomes supported by forelock tugging draughtsmen, into. and a of professicnals dpeendant on a , different calibre of--re. cruit, a university educated, m: nly middle class mass of aspiring principals whose habit of identifying with employers hag blurred their vision of the pelitical reality within their offices and throughout the RIBA. Contessscces As a creative activity architecture, supposedly represents values that exist beyond mére building. -All creative activities experience, to some degree or another three converging forces, the force of the imagination, the power of technics and the exercise of patronage, All three interact through design and their resolution is the creation of forms. In the -sence of patronaze technics ind imagination have no context and thus no substance or meaning. For a Schubert or a Gaugin such constraints as imposed by patronage were minimal for they were in effect their own patrons dirécting their creative energies towards their own needs and conditions. But in architecture his is by no means so easy, for it is a rare occurrence for the architect to aCe asLene own patron, except say, when he builds his own house, = ran, | Ofallthe’arts,then,dirt teeis‘particularly:depengenton oehas patronage., for without patronage: theré is no building and without want For the alternative’ cectthologists thee is: bub one fate, the ‘eventual take over by the owners of production who will. appropriate. their creations to furt her ‘their ownends. Those inventions: ‘that, shave a potentialforgeneratingprofitandmaintainingtheiSiSquowill be exploited; thése that do not will be thrown away::.For<:the conceptualis ti there is only.the world of fantasy anddreams,. Like _ the 'trip' cone too many it will end in trauma and despair, their self inflated bubble will burst,for it has little content and no. Substance. The New Architecture Movement offers a third alternative to this impasse, It is devising a strategy that attacks the heart of the dilemna, the principles of patronage. The notion of patronage encompasses variety of associations but their common reference voint is to an unequal relaticnship between benefactor and benificecry. The ben&ficery of course is the architect. How do we define patronage in our context patronage is the means by which the building needs of individuals and their institutions are determindd. ‘ie realise thet under any social system there will alvays be more users than patrons but we do not see this process of assessing building needs as an independent variable to the design problem. It is intrinsic to the forms that we will create. This is a »rincivle of our movement. We cannot wait for the real patrons to stand up. “Ye must go to them, but this will only be achieved by removing the obstales in our own institutions, ‘irchitecture', it is suggested is the social art. buildingarchitectture:eetne:realmsofgraphicsand.-sculpture. For those whose art i8’less,dependent on external patronage for their ~ well being there has been the opportunity to Tiberate themselves from stereo-typed convention, but, in. architecture we'have.been trapped, "ach move into a mew mode of work is frustrated.‘ Those whohave . “© °+4 attempted to escape ‘by side stepping the issue altogether have fled ‘to the world of ‘alterna vtive technology! or to the ‘vorld of the: ‘conceptualists'. beunb bso Certainly the creation of saci itsolenee is a prerequisite for civilisation. Undeniably, it effects everyone's aspect of peoples lives. And yet we have situations where architecture, which is about living, is practised by a group of nveople, architects, who have erected barriers around themselves. Our conclusions can only be thatthe barriers have been erected because either the practitioners are incapableo’f practising architecture or unnecessary, or their masters, the patrons, misuse their practice. Thus it is our belief that the institutions of architecture operate not only to the detrimmt of the non patrons but to architects themselves. ae a i NAM identifies these institutions as the way architects are organised, their education and their methods of oractice. ach in turn reinforce and sustain the present system of patronage and moreover because the architect is the beneficery in an unequal relationship, they were intended to do so, If we accept that patronage is ultimately exercised for its own benevolence whether for prestige, profit or povrer and if it is the means of assessing the building needs of society than there is a prima facie case of ‘aiding and abetting'. NAM intends to ex2mine each institution in turn. NAM will demonstrate the vay in which thése institutions act-for patronage by isolatinz the practice of architecture from its context. The RIBA claims to speak. for architects as if they were one voice, Assension and arguement is confined to the closed doors of Portland Place. It thefefore snuffs out any attempt to undermine a system of patronave at which it is the beneficery. Through education it produces students who aquiesce to the status quo because the nature of their training has concealed from then the true nature of their work, The organisation of practice is so structured that oo is only able to: function in the context of the existing patrons S65! ‘ 2. ROCA.1 Similarly Housing associations, fousing netion Areas and (IAs are controlled by professionals at the expense purport to serve, In the long term, impotent, for it is through real participation where the bases for decisions are exposed to all, that the orofessional will foster his own development. of the residents whom they this can only render the professional , Private praapiece is accounta iis only. to the minority who weild power. ive. that small: group we have identifie@ as patcons. “here is no effective means of control by those who are affectedb’y the buildings thus produced and there is little public awareness of the profits yielded by ‘the fee scale. ithin offices, a minority of employer architects exercise hierar-— chical control, due as “much to their orn inclination as to their respon= Sibilities under Partnership Lars _ wheir employees, lured by the carrot of eventual advancement = if+they find favour ~ are suspicious compet i~ tive and divided. Such a system Will, in the long. term collapse for . Lt is not sufficiently flexible. to respond to the hang ing pattern of patronage the dominance of the public client and the incrreasing social economic and environmental ayureness expréssed by the public at large uhether in conservation issues or politicshl: stances. N.a.ti. therefore proposes a whole range of reforms vithin practice, from ensuring that.- private offices are subject to a form of local accountability, to office structures based on the principles of co-ownership. Salaried architects should be given a real opportunity to organise and join unions for without such strength thoy are at the mercy of the mar'cet. Mor the public sector architect there looms a different series of frustrations, Local Authority architects work in large centralised rigid organisations which, while professing to serve he public, in reality serve md are acountable only to co.mittee chairmen, Direct contact between users and architects is at least discouraged or forbidden, whe monolithic. internal. hicrachy fosters the promotion ethos. Success isto move out of ‘architecture into management, Rarely: does the Chief Architects’ heavy responsibility for huge expenditure to one client create an office spirit any more inspired thai ell- organised defensiveness. “hy: is this so? Host:public architects have arm bclief in the justice of their cause. any have gone to good nublic offices to escavethe ~ partner breathing down their nec. Might it be that the system has been so devised to tolerate the mediocre. or that it is so fail-safe that no practitioner is that importent? It is clear that as bureaucracies develop, the definition of roles becomes increasingly.restrictive. ‘ihe public architect is insulated from the very problems which a#e the substance of building needsj and the exercise of his imagination and still becomes irrelevant whe New architecture liovement believes that the tide which is continually eroding the basis ofthe architect's work can only be turned by surplanting the local authority service by a National Design Service based on de-- centralised local authority design teams and offering a freely availa>le service to groups and individuals in local -reas, Jhese teams would be organised in such a vay that not ohly would they to help articulate the needs of residents but -also implement them, such an intimate’ relationship vould automatically introduce a means of accountaability. Thisisnotavaguenotionofcontrolor ee butaparticipatory process by which the skills of archit cots do not hide behind a. bushel but are exposed to the commonsense of the layman. she setting up of small scale loc lly based projects should be seen in the context of a national o:xperiment. Architectural education is.dominated and controlled by the RIBA through the Board of Mducation, yet it is,society which foots the bill without any means of control, or rather it has vested its. control in the hands of architects. his has encourageda.n introverted mentality, “i,A.ti.- hasbeendisappointed,butinretrospectnotsurpris«ie:dthefailure of architectural students to respond to the -uestions that N.A.i. ete have posed. The fostering of architectural studies in .a world of unreality, whether in the worst oxcesses of archigoonism or technical‘+ fetishes, is producing a nei generation of draving-board fodder or drop OUTS. o ofpe: cy ho fe yD NAM. intends to set up astudy group to examine the .cuestion of education but itis clear that central to our attitude is to arrange a marriage between schools and their communities. .Schools considerable resources which. could be used community. In general, we should be aiming syllabus in order to enable each school to respond to varying local con- ditions and opportunitics. — *here can be few doubts as to our attitude to the way the. profession is at present organised and controlled.- Eighty per cent of architects wrote off the BIDA years ago. Yet, though it no longer has any moaning for: most architects, its pover is immense and. Council is controlled by the same faces year after year. NW.A.H. secks to establish principles of practice outside the RIBA in architects such a way that’ are not cosettcd in their own front room but are exposed to the street. whese new. principles of practice will range fron of Architecture have for the. benefit of the for more autonomy in ; asetofethics,perhapsin.theformofanoath,modelrulesonprocedur,eto the abolishinogf mandatory fee scale, so that.a range of architectural services is more widely available. :Control of -the activitics of the — profession should be returned .to.where, it was originally invested, namely- parliament. Asthey. stand, the Registration Acts arc. administered by ri ARCUK ‘wiich is mercly afront organisation of :the RISA. WAM. is not a debating society. Its present emphasis on analysis and theory is a prelude,to a programue of action... “hat action .is. aimed zat breaking down the barriers between society and architects, Links will be forged with the local communities where we live through trade unions, tenants associations, local amonity groups and local councillors. “ler: shall work to raise she expectations of the service provided by practices and public offices, On a broader scale, our intention is to co-operate with other progressive gsroups. by lobbying politicians wo-hope to achieve changes in the Registration Acts. ; Our programme is not reformist for all our actions are to be judged-in the light of our desire to seek fundamental changes in the exercise of patronage. In practising community architecture our philosophy is not to offer andy to innocent children hut to demonstrate the failure of established institutions to respond to the people’ needs. By this means people themselves will seck their own solutions; and for architects there is the reward of their oim fulfillment. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource John Allan Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Allan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Undated https://nam.maydayrooms.org/files/original/525268c07dfd60dbc01e12e25cd14ae4.pdf b6e6bcadf02b8c53a240b6b577670c99 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Trade Unions and Architecture Description An account of the resource Themes included action on asbestos and Health &amp; Safety, and involvement with Direct Labour Organisations and Building Unions. Following comparative research of possible options, NAM encouraged unionisation of building design staffs within the private sector, negotiating the establishment of a dedicated section within TASS. Though recruitment was modest the campaign identified many of the issues around terms of employment and industrial relations that underpin the processes of architectural production. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource NAM & The Green Ban Subject The topic of the resource Report for SLATE 3 Description An account of the resource SLATE 3 NAM & THE GREEN BAN Green Bans in Britain The story so far The New South Wales Building Labourers Federation has been closely identified with the Green Bans in Australia. Jack Munday, who had been their General Secretary, was in Britain in January, 1976, at the invitation of CES. He was invited to Birmingham to speak at a public meeting arranged by people concerned about the proposed destruction of the splendid Victorian Post Office in the city centre. Munday spoke about the Australian experience and a Liberal Councillor gave a detailed history of the planning consent for the demolition of the Post Office and the proposed re-development. Amid the subsequent enthusiasm of the trade unionists (from many industries), environmentalists and preservationists present the suggestion was taken up to form a joint committee, to set a Green Ban movement going. The general aim was to spread the idea of workers having a say in the kind of work they undertook, and the specific aim was to save the G.P.O. - with workers' help. The first actions of the committee were to start a petition (which collected 20,000 signatures), hold a public rally, and to seek resolutions of support from the trade unions, such as EEPTU, AEUW-TASS, ASTMS, NUPE, NALGO, UCATT, T & GWU. Political support was forthcoming from local MP's, and County and City Councillors. Following the Rally in March 1976 NAM was asked to prepare a planning report on the implications of the re-development with respect to the city and the financial return that was to be expected. Part of the report re-appeared in the first GBAC Broadsheet which listed the arguments against the development, the support for the campaign and a brief explanation of the Green Ban idea. The broadsheet was distributed through all the local T.V. branches, schools as well as the people of the city. The campaign was featured in the local and national press, many magazines and journals and on Radio Birmingham. The 24 hour occupation of a giant crane on an adjoining site in Support of the campaign was featured on television. During the summer of last year alternative proposals were formulated by the committee for the use of the building. NAM gained access to survey the building. During October a feasability study was prepared by NAM with the results of the survey to study the re-use and conversion of the Post Office as a city centre recreation and leisure centre. Why NAM is involved 2 In November a delegation representing GBAC, the West Midlands TUC, and the Victorian Society met with the City Council and the Post Office Board - a meeting resulting from pressure mounted by GBAC. The aim was to discuss objections to the proposed re-development of the G.P.O. site. The leader of the City Council (now Tory) refused to consider re-voting planning consent, and left it to the Postal Board to make any concessions. But in spite of detailed arguments about Birmingham's heritage, about planning for people instead of profits, and about the huge over provision of office space, the Postal Board remained totally fixed in its determination to demolish the G.P.O. and build the offices. GBAC has been able to facilitate links between Trade Unions and environmentalists on wider issues. For example between FOE Edinburgh and Scottish NUM over opposition to the proposed Lothian nuclear power station. In January a one day conference was held at the AKUW Hall in Birmingham when work- Shops were held on the Built Environment (in which NAM took part), Transport and the Car Industry, Water Pollution and Strategies for change. GBAC has links with FOE, SERA, Science for People Group at Aston University, Lucas Aerospace Shop Stewards Committee. During the winter NAM prepared outline proposals for the use of the G.P.O. building as a leisure centre and these were presented in the form of drawings and diagrams at the first AGM of the GBAC on March 16 where they received unanimous approval. Following the meeting the alternative plan was brought before the UCATT regional committee and a resolution of support was passed. The proposals were brought up at the next Birmingham Trades Council meeting, received considerable Support from the delegates and a resolution of support. At the AGM of the West Midlands TUC the proposals received the unanimous approval from officials from just about all the Unions in the West Midlands. GBAC seek from NAM technical advice, in return NAM is taking part in a revolutionary and historic departure in the development of the British Trade Union Movement. The necessity for links between NAM and the Trade Unions cannot be over-stressed. NAM's campaign to unionise architectural and allied works was established as a major priority of NAM's 2nd Congress at Blackpool. These wider links not only strengthen NAM's hands in its negotiations but add credibility in is forthcoming campaign. But in addition, in NAM's future campaigns for example in the reform of ARCUK, it may wetl need to mobilise Trade Union support to give it political clout, It should be understood that the work for the Campaign has been the work of four people and has taken a secondary place behind our primary involvement in NAM's issue groups, but it is the beginning of a test-bed for some of NAM's ideas and possible future policies. Through the work we have begun to establish The Role of NAM Our role is fourfold. Future Perfect links with other groups such as SERA and FOE and we have become involved in and contributed to other campaigns and issues, for example asbestos, safety on building Sites, the role and structure of the building industry. It is also a first step in building the new clientele, that is an alternative system of patronage. But not least of all it contributes to a broader image of NAM. NAM is primarily political but our involvement does help to belie the accusation that we do not actually get our hands dirty and begin to practice what we preach. It may even attract architectural workers who are more receptive to drawings and technique and develop in £rom some political consciousness. ham (1) To make a technical study of the GPO building, report on its structure and fabric, and assess its possibilities for re-use and conversion, and to assess the proposals of the GBAC. (2) To organise in physical and theoretical terms a strategy that would reconcile many disparate functions together with several sponsoring organisations, variable forms of financing and phasing of the conversion. (3) To identify areas of study to be undertaken by others - for example we have proposed that a financial feasability of the alternative plan be carried out. (4) Propaganda : by using drawings, diagrams and other means to demonstrate to working people the possibilities of re-using the building, and to strengthen the support already given to the campaign by the trade unions by Canvassing viable alternatives. In conclusion it must be clearly stated that in substance, if not in spirit, these roles do not yet differ radically from conventional architectural services. Neither is the relationship with the 'client' especially innovative, although such activities as designing and building (and manning) the propaganda stand at the recent Communist Party Rally at Alexandra Palace, are perhaps untypical. In other words it would be net so much immodest, as inaccurate to describe our association with GBAC as "community architecture'. It is precisely such inhibitions which provide the challenge. There are sound theoretical reasons why NAM has not dissipated its energy in unpteen local projects, but concentrated on broader analysis and structural change. In the meantime, however, many of NAM's most active members continue in regular jobs becoming increasingly aware of a widening gap between their practice and their beliefs. The process of reconciling the former to the latter is a personal journey that each architect must make for himself. The professional habits formed in ten years' practice - or even the professional expectations formed in seven years' training - will not change during the night. They will be eroded, modified, transformed over long years of self-questioning and re-education. The work with GBAC is as good a point of departure as any, and those of us who have been involved are already learning, ¥or example, to hesitate critically before proceeding down such familiar paths as the RIBA Plan of Work. It may - for external administrative reasons beyond our control - be already too late to save the Victorian Post Office Building in Birmingham. This would be sad, but it would not be the end of the story - rather the beginning. For it will mark the first step in the difficult but exciting process of changing ourselves - and, at least as important, - changing each other. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource NAM Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived John Allan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Undated c. 5.76 ?